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[333rocky333]

Does this work for you?

http://www.diynot.com/diy/search/8873412/

no

 

[EFLImpudence]

It must be as you said, then - personal searches.

 

[securespark]

As far as I can tell, you would need to post a screenshot of the search, as the addresses don't work.

 

[JohnW2]

I meant to ask, how's your Portuguese? To an almost total non-linguist like myself, it seems rather odd - when written, I don't think I could distinguish it from Spanish, but when spoken it sounds like Russian to me!!

Kind Regards, John

 

[EFLImpudence]

Well, not very good - but it is a holiday area and most people you deal with speak unbelievably good English by which they communicate with other nationalities as they speak English as well - plus it takes shopkeepers a lot longer if I try to speak in Portuguese than to just speak English in the first place.

I'm not too bad with the written on a very basic level but, as you say, it does indeed sound like Russian and it is very difficult to understand speech as they have what must be a very distinct accent. I am likening it to someone who has learned English and then trying to communicate with a Geordie or a Scot. As you say, very similar looking to Spanish but completely different pronunciation of the letters.

I also made the mistake of starting to learn on what turned out to be a Brazilian website, not realising that it is very different and have had to start again.

I would like to learn out of respect to them but they really don't mind all us foreigners. They don't seem to do 'resent' as is, unfortunately, prevalent in Britain at the moment.

Thanks for asking.

 

[stillp]

Portugal was allied with Britain against the French & Spanish. They still don't like the Spanish very much.
Like most people, they do like you to be able to say 'please', 'thank you', 'sorry' and 'excuse me' in their language. Someone once described Portugese to me as sounding as if they all have loose false teeth!

 

[JohnW2]

Thanks for asking.

You're welcome - and I'm glad you agree with me that it sounds like Russian!

The other thing I've been meaning to ask is how much (if anything) you have discovered about Portuguese electrical practices and regulations - and whether there are any aspects of it which you think might interest, shock or amuse some of us?

Kind Regards, John

 

[stillp]

I stayed in a hotel near Gale about 12 years ago, where the shower was wired in about 4 cores of what looked like 1.5 mm² seemingly glued to the wall and painted over. The wall was primrose yellow, except for the dark brown stripe where the wiring had burnt the paint...

 

[JohnW2]

I stayed in a hotel near Gale about 12 years ago, where the shower was wired in about 4 cores of what looked like 1.5 mm² seemingly glued to the wall and painted over. The wall was primrose yellow, except for the dark brown stripe where the wiring had burnt the paint...

Two or three years I stayed in a very 'rural' hotel in France (near Beaune). In the grounds there was some sort of switchgear, which looked as if it had never had much of an IP rating and clearly no longer had any by virtue of a fair bit of physical damage. Some kind soul had cut a hole in the bottom and attached a length of flexible conduit, which drained into a water butt for the use of the gardener! When I asked about it, I was told that it had "never caused any problems"!

Kind Regards, John

 

[JohnD]

Someone once described Portugese to me as sounding as if they all have loose false teeth!

I think the pronunciation might have something in common with Welsh and Breton.

There are still genetic traces of a Celtic people moving up the Western European coast.

IMO there are physical resemblances too.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Portugal was allied with Britain against the French & Spanish.

630 years. The longest in history.

 

[EFLImpudence]

The other thing I've been meaning to ask is how much (if anything) you have discovered about Portuguese electrical practices and regulations.

It's just a two bedroom flat in an old block. I would say small but it's large for a British two bedroom flat - at least, compared with the similar ones I used to manage and larger than some two bed houses..

I know nothing of the regulations. Aren't they supposed to be all the same? ha ha.
The practices make BS7671 seem slightly OTT.


There are only three 16A circuit, Kitchen sockets, Rest of sockets and Lights.
Only a CPC on the kitchen one.
There were Type C MCBs for which the loop was too high.

Has been replaced with a new CU and Type Bs.
RCBOs for sockets except kitchen and lights which are metal, of course.
Bottled gas cooker and boiler. No heating

Can't get to wiring in meter box outside.
Main supply to CU is 4mm²? solid conductor. Black and Blue singles in conduit.
Did buy 50m of green and yellow but not got round to it yet.


This is what was there:

and now:

I think Neutral link is adequate.

So, was I allowed to do it considering Part Pt?

 

[EFLImpudence]

I think the pronunciation might have something in common with Welsh and Breton.

I don't know. You have to 'sing' it.
Stillp might be right. It does seem easier to speak if you keep your teeth closed most of the time

There are still genetic traces of a Celtic people moving up the Western European coast.
IMO there are physical resemblances too.

No ginger ones.

 

[JohnD]

No ginger Welshmen either.

 

[JohnD]

There seems to be an unused wire on the LHS.

No need for it?